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The foremost guardsman made a vicious lunge for my side with his hook after the three of them had backed me against the wall, but as I sidestepped and raised my arm his weapon but grazed my side, passing into a rack of javelins, where it became entangled.
I offered her a twenty and she sidestepped." Terry's brother had got drunk a few days before, had killed a woman and was on his way to the chair. Terry scowled at the boss and said: "She's got a right to, ain't she? Don't she earn her money honest, without harmin' anybody but herself?
Responding to a signal from his commander, Chief Engineer Blaine had suddenly shot into the submarine's engines the full power of the electric storage batteries and hurled the Dewey forward with a great burst of speed. There was a slim chance that the swift-moving German warship might be sidestepped by a quick maneuver, and the crafty McClure was leaving no deep-sea trick unturned.
A less sure fighter would have given ground, thereby weakening the force of his return blow should he have a chance to give it. McGinnis sidestepped and cross-jolted with his left. It was a wicked punch, but Peavey Jo partly stopped it. As it was, it jarred him to his heels.
Once more Hardy sidestepped, but the moment his enemy turned he flew at him like a tiger, raining blows upon his bloody face in lightning succession. "Huh!" grunted the sheepman, coughing like a wood-chopper as he struck back through the storm, and the chance blow found its mark.
Carelessly she flung at Diller a question. "From what part of the East did you say?" He was on the spot promptly this time. "From Keokuk." "Keokuk, Indiana?" "Iowa," he smiled. "Oh, is it Iowa?" He had sidestepped her little trap, but she did not give up. "Just arrived?" "I've been herding sheep for a month." "Oh, sheep-herding!"
Whereas, a few years since, he would have met the brute rush with brute force, he now sidestepped his antagonist's headlong charge, and as the brute hurtled past him swung a mighty right to the pit of the ape's stomach. With a howl of mingled rage and anguish the great anthropoid bent double and sank to the ground, though almost instantly he was again struggling to his feet.
Time and again he rushed in upon his crouching opponent, who always seemed in the act of delivering a blow and yet at the moment only sidestepped and danced away.
In a single session of the Senate he is said to have sidestepped nearly a dozen troublesome roll-calls without arousing any appreciable dissatisfaction among his constituents. Before a popular jury, however, Senator Green's Cossack methods were likely to carry greater conviction. And that is what happened in the great debate we have referred to.
"No, we must cultivate strength of character. I wonder how?" "Well, your Stoics " "My Stoics?" "Anybody's Stoics did it by self-denial. When they saw a pleasure coming their way they sidestepped it; they went round the corner, and let it go by while they recruited their energies. Then when they saw a duty coming they stepped out and did it." "It seems very simple. But aren't you rather cynical?"
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